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INTRODUCTION

Voyant Beauty believes our people are more than just employees; they’re the driving force behind everything we achieve. Our culture fosters teamwork, respect, and camaraderie, ensuring that every individual’s contribution is valued and celebrated. We invest in their growth, providing opportunities for development and advancement within our dynamic team.

Voyant Beauty is a company that specializes in the development and manufacturing of beauty, personal and home care products. We work with various brands, retailers, and businesses to create customer formulations and products tailored to their needs. This can include skincare, haircare, bath and body products, fragrances, and more. Essentially, Voyant Beauty serves as a one-stop-shop for companies looking to bring their beauty and personal care product ideas to life.

Safety is a core value at Voyant Beauty. We prioritize the well-being of our team members, ensuring a safe and secure environment where everyone can thrive and excel.

If you’re seeking to be part of a team where your talents are valued, your safety is paramount, and your efforts contribute to meaningful change, then Voyant Beauty is the place for you. Come join us and be a part of our journey.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Specialist, Supply Chain Operations, is responsible for supporting network planning across multiple manufacturing sites, with a strong focus on demand processing, data integrity, demand-to-supply translation, and capacity planning. This role plays a key role in Corporate and Plant Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SI&OP) processes, performs advanced supply chain data analytics, and partners closely with Plant Operations and Supply Chain Managers to drive capacity modeling, network optimization, and other strategic initiatives. The position ensures demand inputs are accurate and aligned across systems, then builds and owns models that translate demand into actionable production and capacity plans, identifies constraints, and provides clear visibility of risks and mitigation options.

What you will do:

• Consolidate and validate demand inputs (forecast, customer signals)
• Ensure data accuracy and alignment across systems, identify inconsistencies and risks in demand signals and communicate changes and impacts clearly to stakeholders
• Convert finished goods demand into bulk, line, and labor requirements, align demand with inventory and production plans, ensure consistency across BOMs, yields, and batch sizes and support alignment between planning assumptions and operational reality
• Build and maintain capacity models to translate demand into line and site capacity requirements, identify constraints and quantify gaps (units, hours, utilization), perform scenario analysis to support decision-making, provide clear visibility of capacity risks and mitigation options
• Support preparation of capacity and supply inputs for SI&OP cycles, translate execution data into planning insights, identify risks, gaps, and trade-offs, and communicate them to stakeholders and support development of clear, structured planning narratives
• Validate material and capacity availability to support PO acceptance and order acknowledgment
• Support planning, scheduling, and order management activities and provide data-driven support to sites and corporate teams when issues require escalation
• Maintain and communicate plant operating calendars, ensuring alignment with scheduled downtime, holidays, and production plans
• Support data transfers and coordination of production or inventory movements between sites
• Assist in tracking and reporting supply chain KPIs, identifying trends and opportunities for process improvement
• Contribute to continuous improvement and benchmarking initiatives by identifying and addressing data or process inconsistencies
• Provide administrative and analytical support for various supply chain projects as assigned

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or related field (Preferred)

Experience Qualifications

• 1-3 years Experience in supply chain, planning, or operations within a manufacturing environment (Required)
• 1-3 years Experience in CPG, beauty, or pharmaceutical manufacturing environments (Preferred)
• 1-3 years Demonstrated experience working cross-functionally with Operations, Planning, and/or Commercial teams (Preferred)

Skills and Abilities

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (Power Query, data modelling, complex formulas) (High proficiency)
• Data-driven decision-making and strong analytical skills to evaluate KPIs and identify improvement opportunities (High proficiency)
• Ability to translate data into insights and actionable recommendations (High proficiency)
• Understanding of capacity planning, production planning, and SI&OP processes (High proficiency)
• Working knowledge of MRP/ERP systems and data structures (Medium proficiency)
• Experience with data visualization tools (Power BI or similar) (Medium proficiency)
• Communication skills across all levels of the organization (High proficiency)
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment (High proficiency)

To Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our company does not accept unsolicited curriculum vitae’s or applications from agencies. We are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited curriculum vitae’s or applications and explicitly reserve its right to contact candidates presented in such unsolicited curriculum vitae’s or application.

Our company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, color, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status. Voyant Beauty will consider requests for accommodations due to a disability impacting a qualified employee's ability to perform the essential functions of their position consistent with applicable laws. In addition to federal law requirements, Voyant Beauty complies with applicable provincial and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.